Bug#464953: Hotfix

2008-02-10 Thread Morten Hustveit
Hi, a modification of the exploit that finds the address of sys_vmsplice in the kernel (using /proc/kallsyms) and replaces the first byte with a RET instruction (using mmap of /dev/kmem) is available at http://www.ping.uio.no/~mortehu/disable-vmsplice-if-exploitable.c -- Morten Hustveit

Bug#464953: hotfix possibly unstable?

2008-02-10 Thread Duncan Robertson
Just mentioning that the hotfix mentioned here: http://www.ping.uio.no/~mortehu/disable-vmsplice-if-exploitable.c appeared to have wedged (crashed hard, frozen) my machine, an otherwise very stable pentium 4 machine running 2.6.18-5-686 (with nvidia oldstable xorg proprietry drivers).